[syn: curse, cuss, blaspheme, swear, imprecate]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cuss
n 1: a persistently annoying person [syn: pest, blighter,
cuss, pesterer, gadfly]
2: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at
the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke" [syn:
chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent,
blighter, cuss, bloke]
3: profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger;
"expletives were deleted" [syn: curse, curse word,
expletive, oath, swearing, swearword, cuss]
v 1: utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were
cursing loudly in the street" [syn: curse, cuss,
blaspheme, swear, imprecate]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
31 Moby Thesaurus words for "cuss":
bloke, boy, buck, chap, curse, curse and swear, cuss word, damn,
dirty name, dirty word, dysphemism, dysphemize, epithet, execrate,
expletive, fellow, foul invective, gent, guy, he, imprecate, man,
naughty word, no-no, oath, obscenity, profane oath, scatologize,
swear, swearword, talk dirty